Honorees will be recognized and awards presented at the May 16 Alibi Breakfast in the Terrace Dining Room. The ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m., two days prior to the middle jewel of the Triple Crown, the $1 million Preakness® Stakes (G1).

The prestigious Old Hilltop Award will be bestowed upon WBAL-TV sports director Gerry Sandusky and Horse Racing Radio Network’s Mike Penna for covering Thoroughbred racing with excellence and distinction. Sandusky will be covering his 25th Preakness next month and has anchored the station’s Preakness day coverage on-site since 2001. The Horse Racing Radio Network (HRRN) has provided Eclipse Award-winning coverage of racing’s biggest events since 2005. HRRN has been the exclusive radio partner of the Preakness Stakes for six years.

The Special Award of Merit is given to someone who has made a positive impact on the racing industry. The 2013 winner is Horse Player NOW. Founded by Jeremy Plonk and Joe Kristufek, Horse Player NOW has provided handicapping tips, picks and analysis to more nearly 20 racetracks since 2009. The organization’s Night School, on Tuesday night’s since 2011, offers free online fan education. The Horse Player NOW team will be offering Wagering 101 advice in the Pimlico infield on Preakness weekend for the fourth consecutive year

Daily Racing Form writer Jay Privman is the recipient of the David F. Woods Award for his feature on last year’s winning trainer Doug O’Neill. Privman becomes the eighth person to win the award multiple times, previously winning in 2002. The Woods Award honors the best story for the previous year. Judging was done by Preakness notes team members Ed Gray, Mike Kane and Matt Graves, all award winning turf writers.

Daily Racing Form photographer Barbara Livingston is the winner of the Jerry Frutkoff Preakness Photo Award, sponsored by Nikon. Livingston captured I’ll Have Another and Bodemeister from below the rail as the duo neared the finish line in Preakness 137. Judging was completed by Nikon’s Brien Aho and Maryland Jockey Club photographers Jim McCue and Jerry Dzierwinski.

Baltimore radio personalities Scott Garceau and Keith Mills, former broadcast partners at WMAR-TV from 1987-2006, will host the event for the fifth consecutive year.

Most Rev. William Lori, the Archbishop of Baltimore, will provide the invocation for the second straight year.

The Alibi Breakfast is a popular fixture of Preakness week festivities, starting in the late 1930s on the porch of the historical Pimlico Clubhouse when a group of trainers, owners and other dignitaries would gather in the mornings to expound upon the merits of their horses. Today’s event is a descendant of the original gathering to celebrate the event and solicit interesting race predictions.

THE WAIT FOR THE PREAKNESS IS ALMOST OVER. SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT PIMLICO. OTHER HORSE-RACING LEGEND WERE AT THE BREAKFAST. FOR THOSE OF US IN THE BROADCASTING FIELD, WINNING THE OLD HILLTOP AWARD IS LIKE WITHOUT LETTING THE STRESS OF RUNNING THE RACE. I CAN TELL THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOT FOR BALTIMORE. YOU SAW MY NAME NEXT TO IT AND WONDERED, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY GIVING BAD GUY AWARD FOR? HE JOINED THE CLUB THAT NOW READS LIKE A WHO'S WHO OF BROADCASTERS AROUND BALTIMORE AND IN THE WORLD. HOWARD COSELL, JIM MCKAY, EVEN YOUR TRULY. THINK WILL TO WIN ONE OF THE MOST ELITE AWARDS A MEDIA MEMBER CAN RECEIVE. WE ARE ALL UNDERDOGS. HE'S NEVER ONE YEAR BEFORE. I'M AN UNDERDOG AND DINER TODAY WOULD NOT BE HERE IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE FACT THAT SOMEONE LOOKED OUT FOR ME AND BELIEVED IN ME EARLY MY CAREER. THAT SOMEBODY WAS MY MOM. ONE THING REMAINS CONSTANT. GERRY SANDUSKY IS BALTIMORE'S VOICE TO WELCOME YOU TO SPRING. WHILE WE DO NOT KNOW IF OR WILL REPEAT HIS MAGICAL DERBY RUNS, WE ALREADY KNOW THAT JERRY SANDUSKY IS ALREADY IN THE WINNER'S CIRCLE IN THE 138TH RUNNING OF THE PREAKNESS STAKES. THERE YOU GO. WE'RE JOINED NOW BY 11 SPORTS DIRECTOR AND HELD TOP AWARD WINNER GERRY SANDUSKY LIVE AT PIMLICO. CONGRATULATIONS. WHAT YOU COME AWAY FROM A BREAKFAST LIKE THAT AND YOU THINK, THEY MADE A BIG MISTAKE, DIDN'T THEY? VERY HONORED TO BE SUCH A PART